Congratulations! You made it! You survived and excelled in your student teaching. You are now a science teacher! If you would, take a few minutes to share your wisdom about how to negotiate this difficult year with the students who are following in your footsteps by answering the following questions.
a. What are some things students can do in their fall practicum to make their student teaching go more smoothly?
Make sure that you are very thorough in preparing your unit. The biggest problem is that you may feel that your unit is teachable, but once you begin teaching, you quickly realize that things need to be thought out and detailed even more.
b. What 430 topics/assignments should students make sure are addressed in detail to prepare them for student teaching?
The creation of the unit plan. If you have good lessons prepared ahead of time, you can minimize begining student teacher stress.
c. Help the next group of science education student teachers by completing the thought: "If I knew in September what I know now, I could have done a better job during student teaching if I had ...."
...more practice dealing with classroom management. The actual teaching is not to difficult, but really learning how to control a room full of teenagers can only be learned through experience. Nothing we ever talked about in class prepared me.
d. Are there other words of wisdom/encouragement that you want to share?
Best of luck! Student teaching is just one of those things that you have to survive during the process, but then you look back at it in the end and say "man, I really did it!"
a. What are some things students can do in their fall practicum to make their student teaching go more smoothly?
Make sure that you are very thorough in preparing your unit. The biggest problem is that you may feel that your unit is teachable, but once you begin teaching, you quickly realize that things need to be thought out and detailed even more.
b. What 430 topics/assignments should students make sure are addressed in detail to prepare them for student teaching?
The creation of the unit plan. If you have good lessons prepared ahead of time, you can minimize begining student teacher stress.
c. Help the next group of science education student teachers by completing the thought: "If I knew in September what I know now, I could have done a better job during student teaching if I had ...."
...more practice dealing with classroom management. The actual teaching is not to difficult, but really learning how to control a room full of teenagers can only be learned through experience. Nothing we ever talked about in class prepared me.
d. Are there other words of wisdom/encouragement that you want to share?
Best of luck! Student teaching is just one of those things that you have to survive during the process, but then you look back at it in the end and say "man, I really did it!"